Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
THE BRITISH JEWELL; or, Complete House-Wife's Best Companion. Engraved frontispiece (cropped with image loss). 112 pages; lacks leaf after title. 8vo, original stiff wrappers, soiled, with contemporary owner's signature on front cover; some marginal soiling and light stains, small strip excised from N1 affecting 2 words; uncut. London: J. Miller, 1782

Additional Details

Fourth edition of a work first published in 1769. ESTC (not calling for frontispiece) locates the Bodleian Library copy in Great Britiain and 4 copies in North America.